Open-source
development
PB173/oss, spring 2022
GitHub course page
Martin Ukrop (mukrop@mail.muni.cz)
Ján Jancár (j08ny@mail.muni.cz)ˇ
Course goal:
Encourage, learn and do real-world
open-source development
Course structure
1. Coding open-source
2. Six guest lectures
3. Three short student presentations
4. Three homework assignments
Requirements
1. Open-source coding
(about 50 hours, time tracking, expected contribution)
2. Completing three homework assignments
3. Three short presentations (status update)
4. Lecture attendance
Course info (lectures, assignments)
github.com/crocs-muni/open-source-development-course
(link in IS and email)
Lectures
1. Introduction to the open-source world
2. Lifecycle of open source contribution, project management
3. Continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)
4. Mind your Git manners
5. Technical documentation writing
6. Open source licenses
7. Maybe: Project management practices
Choosing a project
What project qualifies?
(any language, sizeable, active, new to you)
Project selection needs to be approved!
(Discuss during 2nd week seminar.)
Red Hat open-source contest
Possibility to join and win.
Contest tasks pre-approved for PB173/oss.
Tasks available at https://is.muni.cz/go/rh-osc-tasks
exclusive for you till Sunday, sign up at
https://opensourcecontest.web.app
Project inspiration
PC software you actually use
Mobile apps you use
Awesome First PR Opportunities, Up for grabs
Good first issue, GitHub explore, Contrib
What is your favorite open source project?
(DevConf 2021 survey)
Code, Quarkus, Tensorflow, django, kubernetes, atom, Wildfly, Emacs,
Hyperledger, Google Brain, sakara, sakai, Foreman, Qiskit, Tor Project,
Maven, Ripper, JHipster, Pig, Python, 389-ds, ...
What open source software
did you use in college?
(DevConf 2021 survey)
Fedora, Linux, tor, wireshark, git, gcc, python, vim, emacs, g++, golang,
libreoffice, OpenOffice, Ansible, Fedora, Debian, Firefox, Blender, GIMP,
mutt, newsboat, Maven, Java, Python, Wordpress, ...
Project liveness check
Commit activity
(latest commit, frequency, number of contributors)
Issues & pull requests
(amount open/closed, recency, labeling,
responsiveness, style of reactions)
Questions?
Let’s start brainstorming projects.